If the answer to any of these is
“YES,” then you need to submit your proposal for a chance to
speak at Percona Live 2016. Speaking is a great way to
broaden not only the awareness of your company with an
intelligent and engaged audience of software …

Twice each year members of the global open-source community
converge on London in November and Santa Clara in April to
network with, and learn from, some of the world’s most
experienced and accomplished system architects, developers and
DBAs.

And now it’s time for YOU to give back to this diverse and
growing MySQL community. The Call for Speakers for Percona Live London(Nov. 3-4) closes
Aug. 17 and the deadline for submitting talks for the
ever-growing Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo(April
13-16, 2015) expires Nov. 9.

If you like putting things off until the last minute, then it’s
time to get to work! Aug. 17 is just two days away and November
will be here before you know it (think of how fast summer has
gone by already).

Just a few days ago I received a reminder email from Burke Scheld
for the “AUSOUG National Conference Series – Perth 2011 – Call
for Papers”. I had an event-related conversation with several
Oracle guys in my professional networks and the answers I
received triggered this blog post. Some of the very good Oracle
professionals I personally respect said “…I am not sure what I
would get out of it …” or “…I haven’t done anything exciting for
the last FEW MONTHS …”.
The answers I received shocked me a bit. Typically I am in the
opposite situation where I have so many good things happening I
would love to share with the world that I had to choose from too
many topics to submit several. I am sure that I am not very
different from other …

Reminders work. At least on me. I try to Get Things Done (TM)
efficiently, but slips do happen. And when they do, reminding me
has a good chance to influence my priorities. I hope I’m not
alone in this fallibility.

We have plenty already, but we’re looking for more
proposals. It does make our selection process harder
(that’s when the Program Committee sits down and asks itself
“what’s right for the conference and its participants”), but
that’s a task that we are happy to work on.

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